Filsan Said is an early-career theater artist from Minnesota. She has working credits with the Southern Theater, Walker Arts Center, Pangea World Theater, Wax Factory, New Arab American Theater, Guthrie Theatre, and Penguin Random House. She served as the 2023-24 Artistic & Administrative Apprentice at the Playwrights' Center and is a member of the Kennedy Center Directing Intensive Cohort 2024.

Training: B.I.S. Theater Arts, Geography, African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities